Comparison

Journey Forge vs CodeBastion

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Journey Forge

Embark on real-time missions across diverse sci-fi and historical settings. Build a hero, bond with a companion, collect artifacts, and conquer leaderboards in this adventure game.

Highlights
  • Hero and companion building
  • Real-time missions
  • Diverse sci-fi and historical settings
  • Artifact collection
  • Leaderboard competition
Features
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Build a hero, bond a companion, and embark on real-time missions across sci-fi frontiers, wild west trails, pirate seas, sunken shipwrecks, gold-rush tundra, and neon-soaked cyberpunk streets. Collect rare artifacts. Conquer leaderboards.

About

CodeBastion

Forge a city from a humble camp into a lasting bastion through strategic idle clicker and incremental city-building mechanics. Manage resources, assign citizens to jobs, research new technologies, and embark on expeditions to expand your legacy.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker and incremental progression
  • Resource and citizen management
  • Deep skill tree with research
  • Expeditions and exploration
  • Timed defense challenges
  • Offline progress
Features
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Build a city from its first camp into a lasting bastion in Code Bastion, a strategic idle clicker and incremental city-builder. Begin in Summary, where every tap matters. Gather wood, stone, food, and science through quick actions, manage your energy, watch your population, and keep your city moving even while you are away. Your resources continue to grow through citizen jobs and buildings, while seasons, incidents, and storage limits keep every plan under pressure. Move to Development to unlock a large skill tree across economy, construction, society, and expeditions. Each research choice opens new buildings, improves production, increases storage, strengthens manual gathering, expands your population, and prepares your city for the frontier. Turn a fragile settlement into a reliable system of farms, sawmills, quarries, mines, warehouses, markets, universities, barracks, walls, and more. Use the Resources screen to assign citizens to the jobs that matter most. Balance food, wood, stone, iron, coal, steel, gold, science, and influence. Build capacity before production overflows, keep enough workers in essential buildings, and adapt to changing seasons. Missions give every stage of the city a direction. Complete daily tasks, pursue a weekly campaign, and progress through a five-chapter city legacy: found the settlement, grow it into a city, open the frontier, endure its threats, and build a lasting legacy. When the city is ready, enter Expeditions. Train citizens, assign roles, craft preparation items, reveal a procedural map tile by tile, recruit from camps, discover points of interest, and research a catalogue of hidden treasures. Beyond the walls, every expedition can bring resources, experience, discoveries, and risks. Prepare for incursions with passive defenders and a timed defense challenge. Gather temporary materials, build defenses, create weapons, and decide how to hold the line when the frontier strikes back. CODE BASTION FEATURES Idle clicker and strategic incremental progression Quick actions, energy management, and offline progress Deep skill tree with research, upgrades, and unlocks Resources, citizen jobs, buildings, storage, and seasons Daily tasks, weekly campaigns, and city-wide goals Procedural exploration map, expeditions, equipment, and loot Treasure research, defense roles, incursions, and timed battles Five supported languages: English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian Build deliberately, explore carefully, and defend what you have created.

Screenshots

Journey Forge4 screens
CodeBastion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Journey Forge at every 4 days against CodeBastion's every 2 weeks. CodeBastion's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Journey Forge against 5.0 for CodeBastion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Journey Forge ships an update every 4 days, CodeBastion every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Journey Forge versus CodeBastion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJourney ForgeCodeBastion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOvilius StudiosGines Ortiz

Customer experience

Journey Forge

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CodeBastion

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Journey Forge

No in-app purchases

None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Journey Forge free?
Journey Forge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Journey Forge or CodeBastion?
Journey Forge and CodeBastion are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Journey Forge or CodeBastion have ads?
Neither Journey Forge nor CodeBastion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Journey Forge or CodeBastion?
Journey Forge ships an update every 4 days, and CodeBastion every 2 weeks. Most recently, Journey Forge was updated on October 8, 2026 and CodeBastion on October 24, 2026.

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